Improvement in combined gun and pistol bayonet



K. COLVIN. Whale-loading Fire-arm.

Patented Oct. 25, 1864.

We fwd.

"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBTERTK. COLVIN, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED GUN AND PISTOL BAYONET.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,784, dated October 25, 1864.

To all whom it may cortc ern:

-Beit known that I, ROBERT K. COLVIN, of

the city of Lancaster, county of Lancaster,- 'and State of Pennsylvania, have invented ;new and useful Improvements in Gun, Pistol,

pistol.

' scribe its construction and operation.

and Bayonet Combined; and I do hereby declare the following to be an exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification. I

The nature of my invention consists in the attaching a pistol'and bayonet on the side near the'inuzzle of the gun-having arc-d extending from the pistol to the lock of the 'gun-where two triggers are located, one to operate the gun, the other to operate the Tofnable'others-skilled-in thwart-to make and use my invention, I will proceed to. de-

Figure 1 represents a view of the gun, pistol, and bayonet combined; Fig. 2, aview of the trigger and rod to operate the gun and '.pistol; Fig. 3, the one sideof the pistolsock, with its connecting-flanges; Fig. 4, the

- opposite side of the, pistol-stock, exhibiting a sectional view of its devices. iesents the bayonet, pistol barrel,'and cylinder combined.

Fig. 5 rep- "A represents the bayonet andbarrel B of the pistol, solid in one piece, and at the lower end of the barrel (at the side) the re- I volving cylinder G of the pistol is attached by a center screw, D, upon which the cylinder, revolves.

f on a small pinion-wheel, L, that gears into and operates a horizontal rack, M, so as to draw the rack M' backward. To the front part of this rack M is attached a wire rod, N, that extends along the stock of the gun in a groove underneath the barrel of the gun to near the upper end of the stock, where a spiral spring, I, is attached to therod N and to the end of the stock, so as to draw the od N forward and always set itself ready for the action of the trigger J. The upper end of the rod N is a fiat bar, with a dog, Q, projecting is at-taehed-totlielower endpf 'apivot-lever,

U, that operates the moving devices of the pistol, these devices being the common devices of an ordinary revolver.

The pistolstock has a plate with two flan ges,

V V, which slide upon the socket of the bayonet, and a hooked spring, W, that falls into anotch in the flanges V V, and thus holds and fastens the pistol firmly to the barrel of the gun. t

This invention of mine can be attached to any gun. The advantages are in close quarters or in a charge. The gun being fired, the pistol is then operated, and afterward the bay onet can be used.

What I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by'Iietters Patent, is

' 1. The arrangement and combination of two triggers, to operate a gun and a revolving pistol separately or together, as herein described. y

2. The arrangement and combination of the gun, pistol, and bayonet, when arranged and combined as herein described.

ROBT. K. ooLvm.

Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN REIGART,, JOHN S. HOLLINGSHEAD. 

